Amanda Knox Verdict: GMA Live Blog

LATEST UPDATE (2:10 p.m. ET): Amanda Knox headed from prison to the courthouse. The verdict is expected at 9:30 p.m. local time, or 3:30 p.m. Eastern Time.

Today Amanda Knox will learn her fate. Knox and her then-boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito were convicted in December 5, 2009 of sexually assaulting and murdering Knox’s roommate Meredith Kercher two years earlier, on November 1, 2007.

Knox and Sollecito have been in jail since their arrest on November 6, 2007 – just short of 4 years. They have always professed their innocence and appealed their convictions. The appeal trial began on November 24, 2010 and has consisted of 20 hearings (including the last one on Monday October 3) in just over 10 months. This morning, the court will announce it’s decision.

1:21 p.m. ET – Italian MP Rocco Girlanda adds that: “She [Amanda] was very satisfied, I also saw her many times in the last few days and she was extremely tense about this speech and then at a certain point she said (puts his hands in his hair imitating her) Oh my God, I should have said many other things, but I forgot but she is satisfied.” (via APTN)

1:19 p.m. ET – Italian MP Rocco Girlanda says he has just visited Knox in Capanne Prison, tells the press that: “Amanda is relaxing while she is waiting for the sentence. There are obviously the most difficult hours, no? The time never seems to pass. She is relaxing in the chapel she is playing (the guitar) and singing.” (via APTN)

12:36 p.m. ET – Our producer @Rich_McHugh on the ground in Perugia notes that Italian wire service Ansa is saying #AmandaKnox is currently sitting with a priest in the prison, awaiting her fate

11:50 a.m. ET – From our producer @Rich_McHugh: Latest #AmandaKnox buzz around Perugia: if acquitted, she will head to Rome and a waiting plane.

10:44 a.m. ET – @EVargas – question asked at Kercher press conference: “What would you do if Knox fam reaches out to you?” “I don’t know. We need to find out what happened to Meredith and to get justice for her”

10:42 a.m. ET - @EVargasABC: “Meredith’s mother saying that Meredith and Amanda were not that close…”I think they were friendly but I wouldn’t say they were that close.”

10:28 a.m. ET – “What everyone needs to remember is the brutality of what happened that night, what she must have felt, the terror,” said Stephanie Kercher, sister of Meredith Kercher, at press conference, Elizabeth Vargas reports. “Only those people there that night will know what actually happened.”

4:55 a.m. ET – Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito are currently being transported back to prison.

4:46 a.m. ET – Court adjourns as deliberations begin, Judge says not to expect a verdict before 8 p.m. local time, or 2 p.m. Eastern Time

4:43 a.m. ET – Knox, wrapping up final plea: “We deserve freedom”

4:40 a.m. ET – Knox: “Meredith has been murdered, and I always wanted justice for her… I insist on the truth… I want to go back home… I am innocent, Raffaele is innocent”

4:38 a.m. ET – Knox: “The person who shared my life, who had the bed next to mine, had been killed in our home. And if I had been there that night, I would have been dead, been killed, just like her. The only difference is I was with Raffaele…”

4:36 a.m. ET – Konx: ”I had never faced so much fear and tragedy and suffering. I didn’t know how to face that. I didn’t know how to live that deeply. How I felt when we found out Meredith had been killed. I couldn’t believe it – how that was possible… I am not what they say I am”

4:30 a.m. ET – As part of his final plea, Sollecito points to a bracelet that says “free Amanda and Raffaele” says he has not taken it off until now. The bracelet resembles a Livestrong bracelet but is white, reports ABC producer Nikki Battiste. He spoke for 20 minutes. Video of Sollecito’s remarks:

3:39 a.m. ET – Amanda Knox has entered the courtroom in Perugia, Italy. From ABC News Producer in the coutroom, Nikki Battiste: “Looks very tense and serious. Green short with black coat. Sat down took off coat. Talking to laweyr Carlo Dalla Vedova. Didn’t look at family. Hundreds of flashes.”